Re: [ccp4bb] Need help on optimizing my crystals

2025-02-17 Thread Georg Mlynek
Hi Cengiz Kaan Ferah, you might want to look at Successful sample preparation for serial crystallography experiments https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6878878/ And I just stumbled about this one https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-022-00777-5 (not yet read) Br, Georg. Am 2025-0

Re: [ccp4bb] Downloading individual chains from the PDB

2023-09-07 Thread Georg Mlynek
Hi, here a script you can use in a jupyter notebook or colab: !pip install biopython importos importrequests fromBio importPDB importshutil fromgoogle.colab importfiles # Create the folder if it doesn't exist ifnotos.path.exists('pdb_files'):     os.makedirs('pdb_files') # Function to download PD

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement of ligand with alternate chemical structure

2023-02-15 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear Stuart, you have to add   allow_duplicate_sequence_numbers() to $HOME/.coot.py in OSX or the appropriate place on Windows. For Windows, as there is no $HOME, Coot uses .coot.py or .coot-preferences/ directory for configuration - these can be found (added to) the directory in which Coot was

Re: [ccp4bb] Help with One dimensional electron density calculation

2022-07-13 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear Pavel, I guess you know that Billy made cctbx "available" on colab. So installing cctbx and python is not needed any more. https://github.com/phenix-project/Colabs/blob/main/Start_cctbx.ipynb There are also some descriptions of some modifications to the installation so that everything w

Re: [ccp4bb] Tutorials for easy structure determinations

2022-04-07 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear Yong, please have a look at this https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/forschung/oe/ps/macromolecular-crystallography/tutorial/index_en.html You get even the raw data, but also all files in between till the fully refined structure. It covers MR, SAD , . I know it is CCP4 mailing list, but

Re: [ccp4bb] Make Ligand error

2022-01-22 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear Paul, can you please tell me what the Acedrg Tables reference (I assume a table of curated stereochemistry values) and where I can find that table? Where does coot save these cif files? (Not in CCP4-7\7.1\Lib\data\monomers\ as I always thought, before I tried now.) Many thanks, br Geo

Re: [ccp4bb] High-order oligomers vs robust crystals - references?

2021-11-12 Thread Georg Mlynek
Hi, hard evidence I could not find. I once cited "An approach to crystallizing proteins by synthetic symmetrization" for a publication on a rescue strategy in crystallization. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1637565/ They reference to a Phd thesis from 2003. And one idea why it

Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-17 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear Harry, you can run alphafold via https://colab.research.google.com/github/deepmind/alphafold/blob/main/notebooks/AlphaFold.ipynb#scrollTo=woIxeCPygt7K *Cited* *"Differences to AlphaFold v2.0* In comparison to AlphaFold v2.0, this Colab notebook uses*no templates (homologous structures)*a

Re: [ccp4bb] Tiny rocks on my CX100 shipping dewar

2020-12-04 Thread Georg Mlynek
Hi Jack, was the dewar shipped on 1st April and just arrived? You can buy the CX100 also as CXR100 and there you can replace the adsorbent material. Looks like this. https://www.google.com/search?q=replaceable+adsorbent+material+kits&rlz=1C1CHBF_deAT848AT848&sxsrf=ALeKk01N9aWj7Kw07AMDN1oGMnke1s

Re: [ccp4bb] Crosslinking software doubt

2020-06-08 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear Jesus, you should look at https://www.rappsilberlab.org/software/ or https://www.maxquant.org/ Altough there have been huge strides in recent years in software development, XL-MS data processing need still some effort. Br, Georg. Am 2020-06-08 um 9:48 AM schrieb JESUS BALTANAS COPADO:

Re: [ccp4bb] Importance of temperature during initial crystallization screening

2019-08-01 Thread Georg Mlynek
Hi Sergei, this publication should be useful for you. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4756611/ Additionally it is proposed that when your protein is not so stable (lower Tm), one should incubate the screens at 4C. http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0907444911036225 Br, Georg

Re: [ccp4bb] different residues as alternate occupancy?

2019-06-24 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear Guenter, yes look at crambin (pdbcode 1EJG). This crashes Coot until you add*   allow_duplicate_sequence_numbers() to $HOME/.coot.py in OSX or the appropriate place on Windows. For Windows, as there is no $HOME, Coot uses .coot.py or .coot-preferences/ directory for configuration - these

Re: [ccp4bb] Generating Additional Phasing Statistics

2019-02-03 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear All, asking a few years back the question why phasing power is not reported, I got following answer: No, we don't generate phasing power statistics in Phaser, just the figures of merit, which usually give a good indication of how well things have worked. Phasing power is defined in terms

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and (pymol) Win 10

2019-01-31 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear all, I am considering to buy a new laptop and would like to install the latest ubuntu version and have 3D glasses. Following the discussions in the lasts years, this issue seems to be not trivial. Which setup of laptop and 3D glasses will work plug and play? And what about VR. When is coo

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: dry Shipper made in China

2019-01-27 Thread Georg Mlynek
If you buy a used one, or the one from Biobase China make a quality check before. Loosing crystals during shipment means loosing money (accounting for all the efforts that went in producing the crystals).  I once got a protocol from Terese Bergfors at Uppsala University". It consists of what T

Re: [ccp4bb] CC work / free

2018-11-08 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear Frank, pdb_redo webserver does. However you have to cheat to provoke it: The resolution remark in the PDB has to be 0.10A beyond what it was used before. You can use also use the command line version of pdb-redo to tweak settings for your calculation (the expert option). However it woul

Re: [ccp4bb] How to lift a ligand from one PDB into another

2018-10-08 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear Nicola, Extensions --> Modelling --> Copy Fragment Then Edit --> Merge Molecules Br, Georg. On 2018-10-08 10:24, Nicola Evans wrote: A while back I was shown in Coot how to take a ligand from one PDB and insert it into another one - this is really useful if you have superimposed a hom

Re: [ccp4bb] nonenzymatic removal of His tag?

2018-09-20 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear Gloria, probably even when you make the protein synthetically there will be proteases in your solution, because many "air allergens" are proteases (The major HDM allergens (i.e., allergens recognized by the majority of HDM allergic subjects) are present in high amounts in the fecal pellet

Re: [ccp4bb] suggestions on a microscope for Crystallography

2018-03-07 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear Chandra, we are also currently getting quotes for a new microscope. I recently worked at Oak ridge with a Zeiss SteREO Discovery.V20 https://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/us/products/stereo-zoom-microscopes/stereo-discovery-v20.html (everything motorized, which is not really needed) and at diamo

Re: [ccp4bb] Issues with latest XDS (20171218)

2018-01-24 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear Kay, thank you ver much for the (as always) detailed and nicely explained answer. However this brings up some questions for me: 1. Could you please tell me how the "correct high-resolution cutoff" will effect the data processing in the INTEGRATE CORRECT step. In other words what will be

Re: [ccp4bb] .sfrm format problem

2015-06-10 Thread georg mlynek
Hi Tarun, Carsten is right the Proteum2 software is really good. I can send you some introduction pdfs and for SADABS (scaling) I am currently writing an SOP, the manual is also well written. Besides this the program to unwarp and convert images, is in the instrument tab. Best regards, G

Re: [ccp4bb] Alternative ways to get electron density map other than EDS server

2015-06-09 Thread georg mlynek
Hi Xiao, you can also download from pdb_redo http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/pdb_redo/ if a rerefined, updated and optimized X-ray structure model is also ok for you. Depends what your intentions are. Best regards, Georg. On 06/09/2015 11:02 PM, Pavel Afonine wrote: Hi Xiao, just calculate it yourself

Re: [ccp4bb] .raw file from SAINT to pointless

2015-01-05 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear George and Phil, thanks a lot for the fast answers. Things are unfortunately a bit more complicated and the usually very convenient way using SAINT-SADABS-XPREP has too much limitations for this datasets because 1. It starts with that one datasets has more than 2.000.000 reflections (space

[ccp4bb] capillary counterdiffusion agarose plug

2015-01-05 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear Colleagues, After reading a few papers about growing suitable crystals for neutron diffraction. I will do capillary counterdiffusion with an agarose plug between mother liquor and protein solution like described in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23192028. However I looked quite som

[ccp4bb] .raw file from SAINT to pointless

2015-01-05 Thread Georg Mlynek
if somebody could point me in the direction where the problem is or show me an alternative route. Best regards Georg. -- Mlynek Georg University of Vienna Department of Computational and Structural Biology Max F. Perutz Laboratories Campus Vienna Biocenter 5 level -2 1030 Vienna Austria e-ma